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On this week’s Slate Political Gabfest, Emily Bazelon, John Dickerson, and David Plotz discuss the Supreme Court decision to save Obamacare (yet again), the debate over Confederate iconography, and Pope Francis’ polemical encyclical on climate change.

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In King v. Burwell, the Supreme Court held that subsidies to help lower-income Americans buy health insurance would remain available in all 50 states. What does it all mean (in plain English)?

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